Shiprock

SHIPROCK - The Navajo Nation courts are seeking public input before determining whether to officially appoint a Shiprock district judge.

Farmington Daily Times Most Viewed 2009

My father was one of the white millers employed by the Vanadium Corporation of America (VCA) to run the uranium mill in Shiprock, N.M. News of health disasters came to me as rumors at school: They say a herd of sheep drank from the river and died.

Judy Pasternak's Navajo uranium study "Yellow Dirt," reviewed by Ann Cummins Ann Cummins 2010

My father was one of the white millers employed by the Vanadium Corporation of America to run the uranium mill in Shiprock, N.M. News of health disasters came to me as rumors at school: They say a herd of sheep drank from the river and died.

Judy Pasternak's Navajo uranium study "Yellow Dirt," reviewed by Ann Cummins Ann Cummins 2010

We rattle into Shiprock, Ruben telling me we're on the “Rez.”

Something about L.A. Gay Degani 2011

My father was a uranium mill worker in Durango, Colorado, and his company began operating a mill in Shiprock, New Mexico, on the Navajo reservation when I was nine.

Ann Cummins discusses her first novel, Yellowcake 2010

The March of Dimes funded a study of birth defects in the Shiprock area and found that the increase had a statistically significant association with the mother living near a uranium mine or mill.34 But the author urged caution, because of the small numbers involved, and the need for more study.

Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010

Lorissa made an appointment for Juanita at the Northern Navajo Medical Center, the IHS hospital in Shiprock, a three-hour drive to the south and east.

Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010

He also noticed that the Shiprock mill was topped with not one, but two, layers of roofing.

Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010

Shiprock Pinnacle, the stone colossus that sailed the valley floor, stood massed against the southeast horizon.

Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010

He wanted to recruit high school students to make monthly water collections; a girl from Shiprock High had come along on the sampling trip and then started a water chemistry club.

Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010